The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-28
INCIDENTS OF LOCAL LIFE.
Things That Are Heard and Seen in the Wan
behring's of Vigilant Journal Reporter.

IA very sad insanity case recently came under
my notice. said a prominent attorney to Jour
nal reporter Yesterday. 1.-THE victim was a
young man of splendid habits. A year ago ne
was married. He was working on small salary,
but had calculated that it would be sufficient to
support himself and wife. The woman he mar
ried had very high notions of living, and he soon
saw that on his salary he could not keep her IN
money She spent all he made. and began to run
him deeply in debt The situation became so
desperate that he brooded over his affairs until
he lost his mind Recently he was taken to the
asylum, and left his wife and one child without
any means of support How much better it
would have been for his wife to have exercised
some degree of economy"
A Journal reporter was coming down Della
ware street, last night, when bevy of young
ladies coming out of Roberts Park Church met
another crowd.
You ought to have been to prayer meeting"
'sWhy2,
"Oh we had hunks OF fun-a regular picnic.
All the old fellows there prayed, and we were
on the back seat with lot Of young fellows who
Kept Us laughing all the time"
The most trying point in tie life of An anna
teur criminal is when he has to don striped
suit for the first time. There but few men
sentenced to the work-house for the first time
who do not object vigorously to exchanging
their customary dress for the prison garb.
Some Of them said Superintendent Boone to
a reporter "have TO be dressed by main force.
There are others who do not realize that they
are really criminals until the striped suit is
brought out and some of the more sentimental
ones lose all their courage and bravado."
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gathering place for old soldiers, who meet to dis
cuss their war experiences, and every day there
is a score more of them there. aud the same
old stories told and retold. The gathering
represents the movements of every division of
the armies during the war, and by putting the
experiences that are related together. very re-
liable war history could be compiled.
There is much indignation among the colored
people of Bucktown because the color line has
been drawn In the Woodwork meetings. Tie
meetings are now being held in colored church,
and for a time they were the most prominent
workers. The other night, SO the colored popu-
laton claims, when one of the colored gentle
men who had been furnishing much of the cata
leptic amusement appeared at the door he was
directed by the janitor to go to the gallery.
Others who came were served likewise and
there are rumors of an uprising in Bucktown
aga.--st the trance evangelist
did you know that there are quite number
of people in the city who believe the world is to
come to an end during the year 1872 asked a
| citizen yesterday. at is fact, and l think
they are sincere in their belief. But few people
know how many of these Second Adventists
there are in the world Every city. and nearly
a-e-v town. has few of such believers. / have
nsver known tho time when there were
not peools 60 be found with sucn fool
! ish notions. They have set scores of dates
Tor tie collapse and do not seem to DO disal,-
are not realized In my life l know of several
occasions whsa aese people worked up a great
excitement IS tse.r predictions, and many we'll
meaning persoas made preparations to meet the
/ "ad 43Q}e. hes 3ver are not SO easily duped
| es tney were quarter or half century ago,
| and tae fanatics now have little success in in
| fuencing the masses of the people with their
predictions"
| There is fortune-teier up IN Bucktown that
! is said to be amassing wealth by practicing her
| profession. She is colored woman, and occu-
pies dingy, smoke-colored little hut on an alley,
alone. She came here from Louisville a couple
| of years ago. and her fame has spread from her
own race to whites of responsibility. Her visit
| ors are mostly young people, and on frequent
occasions young ladies OF highly respected fami-
| lies have been gliding into her humble
| abode to learn what the future has in store for
| them.